We don't have any idea if there is some kind of interaction, lighting + sound effect, etc. on the Pro. Wait and see before you soil your diapers.

All the stuff that will break on location. Makes sense to leave them out of the Pro.

I wonder if the video of the T-Rex was sped up? If it really operates at that speed that is fantastic and won't result in long delays like the original JP game did. But my money is on it being a lot slower in real life...

The T-Rex's jaw looks hinged on the Pro. My bet is that it will open it's mouth and roar, but not interact with the ball in any way.

Love shooting through the pops!

Seems like the T-Rex is long enough that it couldn't drop the ball on the plastic left ramp entrance.

Well they wanted to use the Jeep because your like a park employee, not a tourist.

The "Smart Missile" shot through the pops looks super-satisfying. Super long too, going to be a tough one to nail!

EDIT>> To expand, the reason I love shots through the pop bumpers is that when you miss all hell breaks loose! Unlike if a tight shot is surrounded by posts or targets where it's more of a brick than anything. I kind of hate it when the pops are caged and nothing interesting can happen except you ball dribbles out bottom eventually in the same place more or less the same way everytime. Why bother having them?

Well I kind of love it because it requires a reasonable investment on the player's part to enact.

1. Keep track of which of those two shots the next player needs the most.
2. Execute the shot to change the truck orientation without draining.

It's not "free". Sure you could argue it's essentially "random" if it doesn't reset between players but it's the same for all players so still fair enough (I assume the game would lack the ability to reset the truck position at all).

Okay scratch that. There's no way to strategically leverage changing the truck position and leaving that way for the next player unless you're also willing to end your ball immediately after doing so.

Geez ez every shot on this game looks like a blast to shoot!

That pretty much nails it. Plot seems to take place immediately following the 1st movie with you trying to rescue remaining staff by evacuating them off the island, while capturing the loose dinos along the way, etc.

It looks super fun but is very much an arcade-take on the source material. Lots of stuff that doesn't strictly make sense but is fun to include in a more generic "Dino hunt" theme. No serious JP moments here, it's all for simple fun.

But, looks to be a very fun pinball game. Great rewarding shots, fun toys, sound, etc. etc.

Don't you also choose which path to take after each mode via the direction that the truck is facing? That could give you a lot of variety in the order of things.

For those concerned about the "exposed nuts" and lack of 3D molded pieces everywhere...

It's a pinball machine. The job of the art package and plastics + toys is to evoke a feeling. It's not possible nor even necessary to provide extremely detailed models etc. for a game that you're going to be sending relatively heavy pinballs flying around on.

Need to see it in person of course, but I thought they did a great job on this one. Even the tower looks good to me though made of flat plastics.

This is always happens though when we are looking at static pictures on our computers in isolation of the actual physical game, we tend to focus on tiny details that just blend into the background on the real thing.

Reminds me of the IMDN thread before the games shipped with everyone so concerned about the silver screw heads on the backboard plastics, how can Stern do this! Maybe we can paint them, etc. You know how many comments there have been about those since the games started arriving?? Exactly zero. It's a none issue in the context of an awesome pinball game.

Hell, Addam's Family had so many exposed wires, switcheds, etc. it looked half done the first time I saw it. Didn't stop it from becoming the highest selling game ever. That level of perfection just isn't require or even suited to pinball IMHO. The "apparent resolution" of the entire game must align. If you have a couple of super high quality items it can look disjointed with the rest of the game. Consistency is better.

This is all true. Except now we have 3D printing. Stern could make a big investment in commercial grade 3D printers and crank out whatever they want.

Why soooo looooong?!

..probably got the line filled with those pesky but kinda awesome Star Wars The Pin games...

I'm pretty sure that topper qualifies in *all* contexts of "gay".

Will most likely end up with washer sized depressions in the clear coat. Not a problem if you never plan on removing them...

Prospector used a polyurethene playfield, no clearcoat required!

Yeah, maybe it was a polyurethene clear coat (https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/sonic-prospector-new-arrival).

Sterns have had extremely sub-standard coil stops for years now. I don't understand why they can't rectify the problem, the replacements I get from Pinball Life are always just fine.

The issue with the factory Stern coilstops is indeed the rivet. It fails prematurely. A properly built coil stop will very gradually mushroom on the end from many thousands of coil hits. These Stern ones will fall apart due to the rivet failing far sooner.

Put it this way, I keep enough Pinball Life spares around so when I pick up a new Stern I'm ready for the inevitable.

I have no idea why they can't or won't fix the issue, been that way for many years now. I guess they don't care enough to fix it. It's a bit sad really since it's a couple dollar part and having it fail so often hurts pinball operators the most, having a new game down for something so avoidable.